Road order: John Harley, John Cate, James Hendricks

John Harley and John Cate became overseers for a road requested by Hico residents toward James Watson’s, passing Adam’s Creek, Barnett’s and Flatt river.

Kind of business

Road order

Court

Road commissioners, April 1754, 22 April 1754

People

• John Harley (road overseer)
• John Cate (road overseer)
• James Hendricks (commissioner; Mr.)
• Lawrence Banckson (commissioner)
• James Watson (Esq)

Road hands

Wm. Barnett

Places

Hico; Adam's Creek; Flatt river

Reading note: Recorded at a meeting of the county’s road commissioners, which Shields’s abstracts print among the court minutes.

Names and places are given as the source writes them. This record has not been checked against the original minute book.

Where to find it

• Folio and page 36-72'
• Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 21
• Original: State Archives of North Carolina, Orange County court minutes (CR.073.301).
• Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 30001, “County Court Minutes, 1752–1766” (State Archives film).